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Oct 10, 2024 · The same year she delivered an Oscar-winning turn in Moonstruck, Cher appeared alongside Jack Nicholson in George Miller’s The Witches of Eastwick, landing the role even after the director called her up and told her, “I think you’re too old and you’re not sexy.”
Dec 12, 2022 · The movie "Moonstruck" starring Nicolas Cage and Cher was a surprise romantic comedy hit in 1987. In hindsight, it was easy for Cher to look back on the project fondly. "It was because we were...
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- The Original Title Was The Bride and The Wolf.
- John Patrick Shanley Based The Stylized Dialogue on Real people.
- Nicolas Cage Wanted to Make Punk Films, Not Movies Like Moonstruck.
- Cher Was Afraid to Take on Loretta.
- Dukakis and Cher Didn’T Think The Movie Would Be Successful.
- Norman Jewison Knew The Movie Would Win Oscars.
- Moonstruck Changed Olympia Dukakis’s Life For The better.
- Cher Enjoyed Playing The "Before" Loretta More Than The "After" Loretta.
- The Grandfather Released Tension from A Scene.
- Cher Used Sonny Bono’s Family as A Reference Point.
An earlier draft of Shanley’s script had it named The Bride and the Wolf, but the title perplexed Jewison. “I said, ‘The Bride and the Wolf? It sounds like a horror film,’” he revealed to the DGA. “So we had a big battle about that and it ended up being called Moonstruck because I convinced [Shanley] it’s about the moon. Everybody’s talking about t...
Shanley admitted to Bomb Magazine that Moonstruck’s language has a certain affectation and poetry to it. “I remember somebody saying, ‘People don’t talk that way, but if he talks that way in the movie you buy it,’” the playwright said. “There’s truth and not truth in that. I said, ‘Well, it’s not the way all people talk, but I was on the train and ...
When Cage was in his early 20s, he “wanted to make the kind of movies that are essentially punk gestures,” he told The Baltimore Sun. “I read the screenplay to Moonstruckand thought, ‘I would never pay money to see this film!’ But my agent insisted I do it, practically forced me to do it. When I saw the finished film I didn’t know what in the world...
In 1987, Cher wasn’t new to the acting world—she had been nominated for an Oscar in 1984, for Silkwood—but she was worried fans still wouldn’t take her seriously as an actress. A few months before Moonstruck was released, The Witches of Eastwick and Suspect came out, so she was in demand. “It wasn’t like Mask, which I felt I just had to do,” she to...
In an interview with The A.V. Club, Dukakis confessedshe didn’t think the movie would be a hit. “As a matter of fact, one day we were sitting around talking, and somebody asked Cher what she thought was going to happen, and she gave it the thumbs-down,” the actress said. “Nobody really expected too much out of it. And then look what happened. And t...
In the same interview with The A.V. Club, Dukakis saidshe knew the movie was a big deal when she went with Jewison to a benefit in Canada where he screened the film. “And he said, ‘You know, you’re gonna get an Academy Award for this.’ I looked at him like he was stark-raving mad. I thought, ‘This little movie and that little Italian lady are gonna...
By the time Moonstruckcame around for her, the then 55-year-old had mostly made a name for herself in theater. But when she landed the role as Cher’s mother, Rose Castorini, and ended up winning Best Supporting Actress (and saying the line, “your life is going down the toilet,” something her mother said to her once), she became famous. “It’s like s...
The “before” Loretta entails the gray-haired widow and the “after” is when she falls for Ronny. “But I much prefer playing her ‘before’ than ‘after,’” Cher told the Los Angeles Times. “The freedom is not interesting to me because that’s something I know, usually. Yet I don’t think of her as being constrained, exactly. My idea was to play her more a...
During shooting of the climax, cast members lost their cool because they couldn’t get the timing right. According to The New York Times, Jewison said Cage threw a chair at another actor, and Cher was threatening to report Jewison to the Screen Actors Guild for keeping them through lunch. Feodor Chaliapin Jr., who played Cher’s grandfather, walked i...
Cher, who is part Armenian and part Cherokee, didn’t know how Italian families worked. “I didn’t come from that kind of family. I really didn’t relate exactly to it, but I had a sense of it, like a distant sense of it,” she told Good Morning America. “Not like something that you can relate to first hand. I’ve known some families like that and I got...
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Dec 20, 2021 · According to the book Norman Jewison, A Director's Life by Ira Wells, the Moonstruck cast didn't always get along, and this tension, though tiring when the cameras weren't rolling,...
Aug 14, 2024 · The musical drama Begin Again, starring Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo, was such an innocuous film that it came as a surprise when director John Carney later dubbed Knightley a “supermodel” and...
Mar 4, 2019 · Director Peter Bogdanovich gave a staggering rundown of his multifaceted career and talked about his work with Cher in a new interview with Vulture.
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Apr 12, 2018 · Cher and the film’s director reportedly did not get along during the production. As a relatively new actress, Cher struggled with staying in character and was said to be difficult to work...
